Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump

Women's long jump at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date	31 August 1972
Medalists
Heide Rosendahl  West Germany Diana Yorgova  Bulgaria Eva Šuranová  Czechoslovakia

Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Women's long jump event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 31 August.

Qualifying

All jumpers reaching and the top 12 including ties advanced to the final round. All qualifiers are shown in blue. All heights are in metres.

Overall Qualifying

Overall	Athlete	Nationality	Group	Mark	1	2	3
1	Angelika Liebsch	East Germany	B	6.69	6.69	–	-
2	Heide Rosendahl	West Germany	B	6.62	6.62	–	–
3	Margrit Olfert	East Germany	B	6.52	6.27	6.52	–
4	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	B	6.41	6.41	–	–
5	Willye White	United States	B	6.39	6.23	6.39	–
6	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	B	6.39	6.39	–	–
7	Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia	A	6.38	6.38	-	-
8	Ilona Bruzsenyá	Hungary	B	6.37	6.28	x	6.37
9	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	B	6.33	6.33	–	–
10	Heidi Schüller	West Germany	A	6.32	6.21	6.32	–
11T	Diana Yorgova	Bulgaria	A	6.32	6.32	-	-
11T	Marcia Garbey	Cuba	B	6.32	6.32	–	–
13	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	B	6.31	6.31	–	–
14	Elena Vintilă	Romania	A	6.30	6.30	–	–
15	Erica Nixon	Australia	A	6.27	6.16	6.27	5.42
16	Maureen Chitty	Great Britain	B	6.26	6.25	x	6.26
17	Sieglinde Ammann	Switzerland	A	6.26	6.26	6.13	6.04
18	Lyubov Ilyina	Soviet Union	A	6.25	x	6.25	x
19	Modupe Oshikoya	Nigeria	A	6.22	x	6.22	x
20	Odette Ducas	France	A	6.16	x	x	6.16
21	Hiroko Yamashita	Japan	A	6.14	6.13	6.06	6.14
22	Brenda Eisler	Canada	A	6.10	5.61	6.08	6.10
23	Martha Watson	United States	A	6.09	5.86	6.09	6.09
24	Debbie Van Kiekebelt	Canada	B	6.07	5.88	5.79	6.07
25	Radojka Francoti	Yugoslavia	B	6.02	6.02	5.53	x
26	Kristina Albertus	East Germany	A	6.01	x	6.01	x
27	Lyn Tillett	Australia	B	5.99	5.99	5.90	5.97
28	Ruth Martin-Jones	Great Britain	A	5.93	x	5.93	x
29	Kim Attlesey	United States	B	5.80	5.80	x	5.62
30	Lin Chun-Yu	Republic of China	A	5.50	5.50	x	x
31	Audrey Chikani	Zambia	B	5.17	4.29	5.17	4.64
–	Ingrid Mickler	West Germany	A	NM	x	x	x
–	Valeria Bufanu	Romania	A	NM	x	–	–
–	Irena Szewinska	Poland	B	DNS

Final

At the end of three jobs the top eight received another three jumps. The remaining were eliminated from medal contention.

Overall	Athlete	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Heide Rosendahl	West Germany	6.78	6.78	6.76	6.69	6.52	6.73	6.71
	Diana Yorgova	Bulgaria	6.77	6.43	6.12	6.62	6.77	6.53	x
	Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia	6.67	6.51	6.60	x	6.67	x	6.27
4	Marcia Garbey	Cuba	6.52	6.26	6.52	3.96	5.94	x	x
5	Heidi Schüller	West Germany	6.51	6.32	6.18	6.51	x	x	6.25
6	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	6.49	x	6.49	x	6.16	6.39	x
7	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.48	6.43	6.48	6.48	6.44	6.35	6.44
8	Margrit Olfert	East Germany	6.46	6.42	x	6.34	6.46	6.30	x
9	Sheila Sherwood	Great Britain	6.41	6.41	x	6.40
10	Ilona Bruzsenyák	Hungary	6.39	6.39	x	6.36
11	Willye White	United States	6.27	6.01	6.27	x
12	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.24	6.19	6.24	6.02
13	Angelika Liebsch	East Germany	6.23	x	6.23	6.07
14	Elena Vintilă	Romania	6.13	6.06	6.01	6.13

Key: NM = no mark; DNS = did not start; x = fault; T = tied

References

• Sports-reference
• Official report